India’s Modi spoofed over doctored photos of Chennai flood visit
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Prime Minister Narendra Modi became the butt of online jokes on Friday when it turned out an official photo showing him surveying flood damage in southern India through a helicopter window had been doctored.
Cheap and illegal, Syrian workers show underside of Turkey’s refugee crisis
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – As Turkey prepares to give more Syrians the right to work, thousands of Turkish bosses are already benefiting from cheap and illegal Syrian labor, raising concerns about the treatment of vulnerable members of the world’s largest re…
Delivery of shelters for Calais ‘jungle’ migrants delayed
PARIS (Reuters) – The delivery of shipping containers converted to shelters for migrants in Calais has been pushed back a month to early next year, the firm supplying them told Reuters on Friday.
Belgium seeks public help in search for two Paris suspects
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian federal prosecutors appealed to the public on Friday in the search for two men who traveled with a key suspect to Hungary in September and who they believe may have links to the Paris attacks.
Argentina, Brazil to watch Venezuelan vote closely: Macri
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Argentine President-elect Mauricio Macri said on Friday that Argentina and Brazil will closely follow Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Venezuela, as he appeared to back away from seeking outright Venezuelan suspension from the M…
With an eye on Russia, Estonia seeks security in computing cloud
TALLINN (Reuters) – Concerned about its assertive neighbor Russia, Estonia plans to upload much of its government data to computing clouds to guard against security threats, enabling the Baltic state to be run from abroad if necessary.
EU might take charge of Europe’s borders
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union is considering a measure that would give a new EU border force powers to intervene and guard a member state’s external frontier to protect the Schengen open-borders zone, EU officials and diplomats said on Friday…
Israel trained against Russian-made air defense system in Greece: sources
JERUSALEM/ATHENS (Reuters) – Israel has quietly tested ways of defeating an advanced air-defence system that Russia has deployed in the Middle East and that could limit Israel’s ability to strike in Syria or Iran, military and diplomatic sources said.
German parliament approves military campaign against Islamic State in Syria
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s lower house of parliament on Friday approved government plans to join the military campaign against Islamic State in Syria.
Russian air force hit 1,458 targets in Syria over week: agencies
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s air force flew 431 sorties and hit 1,458 “terrorist targets” in Syria in the week of Nov. 26 – Dec. 4, Russian news agencies quoted the Russian Defence Ministry as saying on Friday.
